An obituary of the incunabulist & biographer; referred to HW as ‘the English Proust’.

Parallels with SteinerClarke, Chris 37 (Sep. 2001): 79

Response to The Star-born, linking its ethos to the educationalist Rudolf Steiner: 'The individual Self is part of the Self of All'.

George L. Parker (1923-2008)

Parrott, Michael

NL15 (Mar. 2009): 47

An obituary and appreciation of George, well known to many Society members and a regular at meetings, whose other interests included youth movements, the Marines (a distinguished career), a love of music, travelling and walking.

Dr Blench feels that the book is valuable as an accurate and detailed account of HW’s life during the war, including full reproduction of his letters home, his diary entries and his military notebooks kept in the battlefield, which also have an historical usefulness as a record of that war. These real -life facts can be related to and compared with his later writings.

A Patriot’s Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War,Anne Williamson (Sutton Publishing, 1998)

Rawling, William (Review)37 (Sep. 2001): 96

A reprint of a review by William Rawling (National Defence HQ, Ottawa, Canada) which first appeared in Albion, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2000 (Appalachian State University, Boone, USA) a quarterly journal concerned with British studies. Rawling considers the book, with its multi-level narrative which captures the variety and subtleties that made up a soldier’s experience, to be a primary source for the historian of the First World War. Anne Williamson reproduces Henry Williamson’s letters home to his mother, his diary entries, and his official field notebooks and interweaves them into commentary on the fabric of the war on the western front in Flanders and at home, his family and friends and the social history of England at that time.

Pauper Spirits

Brown, Andy

39 (Sep. 2003): 18-27

An in-depth investigation into the routine and staff at Colfe’s Grammar School as it was at the time HW attended, and comparison with fictional representation in Dandelion Days (1922).

A description of HW's Norfolk farm prompted by the making of a radio programme.

The Phasian BirdWilliamson, Richard 35 (Sep. 1999): 78-83

Here Richard gives the background to the writing of HW’s book about a Reeve’s pheasant on the Norfolk Farm, drawing on his own memories and pertinent documents, inc. the importance of music, particularly Bach’s B Minor Mass.

Phillip Maddison and the Decca Trench Gramophone

Macfarlane, David

42 (Sep. 2006): 67-76

An examination of the importance of Phillip’s possession of a Decca Trench Gramophone and the effect of his choice of records to play on it, as woven into the war vols of ACofAS. Includes photo and reprod. of contemporaneous advert.

A description of the area known as the Ypres Salient, with reference to The Wet Flanders Plain and the Chronicle.

Photographs, a selection from the early era38 (Sep. 2002): 29-32

Photographs from the archive of HW and family, and places associated with his early life which feature in his published work, including owlets kept briefly by HW and the basis for one of his earliest published newspaper items (see AW, Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic, p. 75).

Part 1, 'The Family Background'; Part 2, 'Young Richard Maddison'. An analysis of the role in the Chronicle novels of one of its most central characters, Richard Maddison, who is based on HW’s own father, William Leopold Williamson.

Continuation of this analysis of one of the main characters in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight with Part 3 'The Husband', Part 4 'The Father', and Part 5 'Judgement'.

A Portrait of Richard Maddison(conc.)Lewis, Peter37 (Sep. 2001): 50-7

Peter Lewis continues to analyse the character of Richard Maddison, father of Phillip Maddison (and based on HW’s own father), a major character within A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, with Part 6 'Special Constable'; Part 7 'Moonlighter'; and Part 8 'Pensioner', including his death from complications after a prostate operation in 1946.

A statement from the new Society's President in the first issue of its journal.

Quiz

Lewis, Peter

NL15 (Mar. 2009): 39-40

Thirty questions, based wholly on The Pathway, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its publication.

The Radfords of Ingo Brake, LydfordEvans, Tony36 (Sep. 2000): 7-25

The background to HW’s friendship with Tom and Crystal Radford and their family (particularly Jo Radford) which originated with Gwendoline Dennis of Croyde in the 1920s. The Radford family lived at Ingo Brake, Lydford, the setting for The Star-born. Charles Tunnicliffe stayed with the family while completing the illustrations for the book in early 1933.

A description of the booklet which researches a short period in HW's life after the end of the Great War that later formed a backdrop to his early novel The Dream of Fair Women.

The Redhill Mafia 21st Birthday Meeting

White, Margaret

NL8 (Mar. 2002): 22-4

An account of the celebrations of this long-lived series of annual local meetings, in which members are encouraged to participate.

Redhill Meeting: Food, Glorious Food, November 2007

White, Margaret

NL14 (Mar. 2008): 38-9

An account of this local meeting, with food in HW's writing as its theme.

Redhill Meeting, December 2006

White, Margaret

NL13 (Mar. 2007): 40-1

An account of the meeting.

Redhill Meeting: Aspects of War, 1914-1918, November 2005

White, Margaret

NL12 (Mar. 2006): 28-9

An account of the meeting, with the theme of the Great War.

Redhill Meeting: Book Reviews etc., November 2004

White, Margaret

NL11 (Mar. 2005): 32-8

An account of the meeting.

Redhill Meeting, November 2003

White, Margaret

NL10 (Mar. 2004): 24

An account of the meeting.

Redhill Meeting: Richard Williamson, talk on 'HW and his Nature Writings', November 2002

White, Margaret

NL9 (Mar. 2003): 20-2

An account of the meeting, and Richard Williamson's talk.

Redhill Meeting: A Wild Goose Chase, November 2009

White, Margaret

NL16 (Mar. 2010): 31-1

An account of the meeting, and the two papers given: Anne Williamson's 'Following a Wild Goose Chase – an extraordinary tale og HW, the King of Redonda and Wilfrid Ewart's Way of Revelation'; and Robert Walker's 'Mackerel for Tea', based on ch. 26 of Donkey Boy and Phillip Maddison's Hayling Island holiday.

Report of Exeter University Celebration of 10th Anniversary of Death of Ted Hughes

Williamson, Anne

NL15 (Mar. 2009): 22-3

A brief account is given of the event, 'The Artist and the Poet', held on 6 November 2008, the centrepiece of which was the showing of a film of Hughes in conversation with Leonard Baskin, his American illustrator. (Ted Hughes gave the eulogy at HW's memorial service.)

A selection of very short responses to the Spring 2000 investigation (see HWSJ, 36, Sep. 2000 for text of papers presented) of the meaning of this important work within HW’s oeuvre by various HWS members.

A rebuttal, supported by HW's diary entries, of the premiss of M. Coultas's article 'Decline and Fall, Part 1: The Crisis of the Chronicle', which proposed that HW faced a crisis in the writing of the Chronicle in 1963.